If you put that open inside of metric_init, start gmond as root, then
the filehandle will be created before gmond drops it's privileges to
the user configured.
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Antonio Óscar Balmaseda
<antonio.o.balmas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
>
> I have a strange problem. I'm writing a new metric for ganglia, in python,
> in order to measure some data of the apache log. I'm pretty sure that the
> code is correct but the thing is that it's absolutely impossible open any
> file.
>
> When I try do it, the system returns:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/ganglia/python_modules/test.py", line 41, in
> Apache_Response
> fileHand = open('/var/log/apache2/access.log','r')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/apache2/access.log'
>
> I've checked the permissions, tested with other files in other directories
> and done everything that I could think. Anyone has a clue?
>
> Thanks a lot. Regards,
> Antonio.
>
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